{"product_id":"the-bounds-of-race-dominick-lacapra-9780801425530","title":"The Bounds of Race","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe concept of race is central to one of the most powerful ideological formations in history, Dominick LaCapra argues in his introduction to this volume, and understanding the effects of that ideology and its intricate relations with issues of class and gender is one of the most pressing challenges to contemporary modes of thought. The eleven essays comprising \u003ci\u003eThe Bounds of Race\u003c\/i\u003e confront this challenge with insight, rigor, and imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe authors take on questions of language, genre, and politics with reference to African-American, Anglo-American, African, South African, Francophone North African, British, and Afro-Hispanic texts. Individual chapters discuss writings from an array of genres including homily, autobiography, the novel, children's literature, and political and scientific discourse. Taken together, the essays argue persuasively that the existing canon must be expanded, that the protocols of interpretation must be transformed to make a prominent place for such issues as race, and that the problem of interpretation cannot be posed in the absence of theoretically informed modes of historical investigation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Bounds of Race\u003c\/i\u003e provides a subtle analysis of the variable role of racial ideologies and traces the interplay between hegemonic constraints and the strategies of resistance to them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Dominick LaCapra\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0801425530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780801425530\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cornell University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/02\/1992\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 360\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.54lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.94d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 10\/11\/1991","brand":"Dominick LaCapra","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48435695878399,"sku":"9780801425530","price":61.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_40e41b02-10e2-416b-8431-33c9e1b198a4.jpg?v=1777152088","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-bounds-of-race-dominick-lacapra-9780801425530","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}